Is this for free? i cant find pricing information
Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
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Re: Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
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I laud the effort of making it easier to build apps, but in my experience the backend stuff is mostly building the rest api and cron jobs, which are relatively straightforward. Imho, bulk of the complexity is in user interfaces with lots of moving parts.
I build whole systems, and have had specialized jobs ranging from 3D game programming to Machine Learning to Rapid Web App Dev. I've observed many the opposite. I would agree that interfaces have lots of moving parts, but part of what you try to do there is to reduce the complexity because it often means you are passing on too much to the user. I suppose there's a bit of Apple philossphy there. Just cron jobs and RES…
Great list. Would love to see that expanded into a blog post :)
Re: Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
#53Is this for free? i cant find pricing information
Free for open source- still working out pricing for private projects, but will be affordable for indie devs. Basically it will be something I could have afforded back in 2010 when I was in school.
Re: Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
#54co-founder here if anyone has any questions
Would love to see it integrated with a front end building platform like Webflow. I just built a quick site with Webflow, but because it lacks any integration with DB/Backend it was only used as a landing page. Having this ability would let users create and end to end web product with only basic knowledge of programming.
Cool idea, will check it out!
Re: Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
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We're not a production hosting platform--at least not at the moment. We do spin up a preview server for you to play around with your app while you build it in Treeline, but it's not meant to compete with Heroku or any such provider. Instead, we give you a way to download your project as a fully-formed SailsJS app which you can deploy anywhere that supports Node. You can also use the same tool to preview your app on y…
Okay, cool. Now that I've finished being uninformed enough to get questions out of the way, I'm guessing you chose Sails because it has some kind of JS DB for prototyping. I would spend time asking if Sails is the desired output format because, although I've only used it during a Startup Weekend fling, it feels like a framework, and don't forget that it's said that while you can plug your code into a library, in Sovi…
We chose Sails because we built it :)
Re: Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End
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Washing clothes is not hard, but yet we still buy expensive washing machines to save us time. Please take a closer look- would love to hear your feedback after trying the platform out.
I fail to see how this is an actual answer to anything I have written. It feels like you are dodging with an analogy. Can you please elaborate?
I understand where you're coming from, but I must respectfully disagree. However I'll say one more thing in defense of our users: modern front-end developers do data manipulation all the time. The data munging that's happening on the client is just as complicated and important as the coercion and marshaling on the backend. In many cases, the barrier preventing client-side developers from just doing the same thing is a different language, a lack of confidence, or organizational pressure and bullying.
Let's see what they can do :)